Description:
Attempting to use the downloaded 4.1.7 binary distribution for Solaris 9 on x86.
A simple test gives me:
% /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --version
Illegal instruction (core dumped)
On any Pentium III based system; it works fine on Pentium IV based machines.
The binaries are stripped, but I can see from one of the libraries that it was built using the
Studio 9 compiler and -xtarget=native (presumably via the -fast flag). This flag is problematic as it generates cpu-specific optimizations and instructions.
How to repeat:
Try running mysql on a Pentium III based Solaris x86 machine.
Suggested fix:
Don't use -fast, or explicitly add -xtarget=generic.

[10 Jan 2005 7:53]
Hartmut Holzgraefe

I tried both mysql-standard-4.1.7-pc-solaris2.9-i386.tar.gz and mysql-standard-4.1.8-pc-solaris2.9-i386.tar.gz with Solaris 9 x86
installed on a P3mobile system (within vmware) without any
problems

[21 Jan 2005 12:53]
Peter Tribble

It still fails for me every time on a PIII system. And 4.1.8 and 4.1.9 fail as well.
Just for reference, I'm using PIII Xeon 5550MHz (Dell 6350) and PIII 1.4GHz (Sun LX50)
with kernel 112234-11. PIV based systems running the same revision of Solaris work fine.

BUG#9283 reported similar problems on Solaris 10. We need to double check the compile options on these platforms - most likely the optimization flags need to be adjusted.

[29 Sep 2005 13:12]
Lenz Grimmer

The compile flags for the Solaris 8/9/10 x86 binaries indeed contained "-xtarget=native".
They have now been changed to "-xtarget=generic" to support PIII systems as well and to
avoid the "illegal instruction" crash.
The upcoming releases of MySQL (4.0.27, 4.1.15 and 5.0.14) will be built with these flags.